Should I Learn Python or Ruby next?

[Nathan Rice]

It really depends on what you want to do.  Ruby and Python are both highly
expressive languages.  Python syntax seems "nicer" to me but that is
subjective.

As far as community support, Python has 4342 packages listed in sourceforge,
Ruby has 705.  Python is listed in ~0.4% of jobs at indeed.com's trend
analyzer, Ruby is at about 0.3%.  Ruby seems to have traction primarily in
the web arena, with rails.  Python has traction in both the web area, with
Django, and in system administration and science/data analysis fields.
 Hopefully this objective information will help guide you.

On Tue, Jun 22, 2010 at 4:58 AM, Josef Tupag <joseftupag at gmail.com> wrote:

> I've been programming (when I do program) mainly in Perl<http://www.perl.org/>for the last 10 years or so. But I've been itching to learn a new language
> for a while now, and the two near the top of the list are Ruby<http://www.ruby-lang.org/>and
> Python <http://python.org/>.
>
> I figure that Ruby would be easy to learn because of its similarity to Perl
> (I'm told). But I also figure that Python would be easy to learn because of
> its simplicity. And when it comes to webby stuff, I can use Rails<http://www.rubyonrails.org/>with Ruby and
> Django <http://www.djangoproject.com/> with Python.
>
> I'm currently leaning toward Python and began doing so last week. I started
> with Mark Pilgrim's excellent Dive Into Python<http://diveintopython.org/>and made it thru the first 3 chapters pretty quickly. So far it feels pretty
> good.
>
> Before I really dive in, though, I'm curious to hear what others think
> about the choice between these two languages.
>
> (On a related note, you might also read Tim Bray's On Ruby<http://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/200x/2006/07/24/Ruby>post, since he just started learning Ruby.)
>
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